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RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-cms-auth-enveloped-01.txt



Okay the oid in AuthEnvelopedData EncryptedContentInfo
contentEncryptionAlgorithm field is all encompassing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-smime@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-ietf-smime@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Russ Housley
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 12:56 PM
> To: turners@xxxxxxxx
> Cc: ietf-smime@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-cms-auth-enveloped-01.txt 
> 
> 
> Sean:
> 
> >Two comments/questions:
> >
> >Sec 2.1: Don't we need an algorithm identifier for the mac algorithm?
> 
> No.  Authenticated encryption provides both.  Please see 
> draft-ietf-smime-cms-aes-ccm-and-gcm-00.txt to see two examples.
> 
> >Sec 2.1: Since the mac description says a digest is not used 
> should we 
> >say in the authAttrs description that the message digest 
> attribute must 
> >not be included if authenticated attributes are included 
> (9.1 requires 
> >message digest if authenticated attributes are used)?
> 
> Yes.  That is a good improvement.
> 
> Russ
> 
>